Industrial Engineer

What is an Industrial Engineer?

Industrial Engineers deal with the optimization of complex systems or processes and reduce waste that does not provide value-adding. The eliminated waste can be in the form of: energy, time, space, man-hours, machine time, materials, transportation, overproduction etc.

Industrial Engineer Duties

Develop, analyse and troubleshoot production processes (both technical repair and support sides of the operation) through the use of engineering tools, methods and techniques.

Utilizing knowledge of various manual and automation processing rates to support staffing, balancing, costing, scheduling and other business analytics.

Lead the development of lean production lines and line balancing, including for new product introductions.

Improving work methods by analyzing methods and procedures to ascertain the most efficient way to perform all warehouse tasks. (Reducing steps, travel, non-value added time, and waste, deploying best practices, works amplification, staff planning, balancing, and identification/removal of barriers to productivity).

Monitoring and maintain a deep understanding of variables impacting key performance metrics, contributing input and support to team in achieving targets.

Leading/supporting the continuous improvement programs for both facilities (with a focus on improving cost effectiveness; performance, utilization of systems, equipment and people, while maintaining a safe, quality and customer focused work environment).